Hey guys, I was wondering if anyone has had a similar problem. I've had my site up for about 6 months now. Every two weeks or so I lose all my rankings, not deindexed then it rebounds and gains them some what back. Then two to three weeks later blam all ranks gone.

I'm facing the same problem for the past one month! My site is ranking on page one for many keywords. It is not deindexed actually, but it completely goes out of SERP atleast twice a week. I didn't update my site for a while and also stopped building links. May be that could be the reason. Now I started updating it and building backlinks too. Let's see!

I have a few sites doing that. Not sure if I'd call it the Google dance or the sandbox, but somewhere in Google's penalty box.

What I did that triggered it consistently was to use ALN excessively. I think because the links are indexed rather quick and the anchor texts are too similar.

Sometimes, and this is just sometimes, you can get it to jump back around its original position by hitting it with a few irrelevant anchor text links. Such as "click here" "visit" and another good one to throw in is the domain or url that you are linking to "http://www.mysite.com"

I've noticed good results with profile links and about a 50% relevant to 50% irrelevant ratio for anchor text.

nevermind it is still there. Dxseo, I had over 5500 backlings indexed by google stated by webmaster tools about 5 days ago. Now when I revisit, it shows that there is none. Does google just drop your backlinks? One problem I did see is that some site had picked up some part of my feed or something and I had 4300 backlinks coming from one site.

After reading the posts while I was writing my last post, I think that this is a new trend with Google. I should do some more precise testing and see what is causing it...
-Too many high PR links (i.e. ALN)?
-Anchor texts too similar (i.e. "keyword" and "keyword review")
-Not enough link diversity (i.e.: article links, profile links, video links, social bookmarks, blog comments, etc...)
-Something else?

By the way, to combat this google stupidity, I have been duplicating position 1 backlinks for sites in similar niches. I've noticed that doing this seems to be pulling some of the sites out of this gutter.

I'm not sure because when i look at a few sniper (thin affiliate sites) that stick in google, I see:
-a fair amount of link diversity (some have mainly blog comments or profile links)
-not a lot of content or pages
-anchor text variation is about 30% target or related and 70% odd variations
-most or all links to the root

I am running a test of sorts right now with 3 domains. I've made it a point to throw in the "click here" "visit" and "url.com" anchor texts from the start. I'm not using aln at all and I'll see how it goes.

But I would really like to get a concrete answer on why this is happening and what Google is looking at or looking for on my sites.

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